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Nuvaring question
| Wed, 02-25-2004 - 7:58am |
First off I want to say I LOVE the Nuvaring! I have a question on how to delay or skip my period, I was supposed to remove it yesterday and start my period on Saturday. I want to either wait and take the ring out on Sunday and start a period sometime during the week or skip the period all together. I have read you can leave it in for 28 days and still be protected. Is that right? So for the maximum protection do you take it out, wait for your period and put it in 7 days later or do you use rings back to back? Or could I take this one out and put a new one in right away? Thank you for clearing this up for me!

When I did rings back to back, I took the first one out as I normally would, put in the second one, and started bleeding a week and a half later. What I did was wait until Sunday (my normal ring change day) and then I took the second ring out, waited a week, and then started over the next Sunday.
In theory, my guess is that I started bleeding because I had developed more endometrium than I was providing the progestin to support.